On Monday a friend and I went to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and saw the 'Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries' exhibit. National Gallery of Art Presents Modern Art and America (News Release) <www.nga.gov>

To my surprise we discovered Marcel Duchamp's famous Urinal (signed R. Mutt)

After years of reading about this wonderful and legendary prank it was like a pilgrimage to Mecca! There it was, the Urinal! The Urinal that has represented so much of 20th Century art in all of its glory.

I snuck out my digital camera and when the guard wasn't looking I snapped a picture to be used later on the Gridcosm.

I have witnessed Duchamp's Urinal in the flesh. I have seen the promised land, I feel blessed to have been in its presence, I can die now.

jonathan